Meet the MobLab Team

MobLab is powered by a growing global network of allies, partners, volunteers, and staff. Our core team, below, serves this network from 6 different cities across 12.5 time zones (at least when we convert times correctly). We love to connect: you can drop us a line here to say hello!

Michael Silberman

Global Director

Michael Silberman leads the Mobilisation Lab team. Silberman is recognized as one of the U.S.’s 50 most influential leaders by The NonProfit Times and one of LinkedIn’s “Top Professionals 35 and Under” transforming the social impact sector. He teaches digital-era advocacy and campaigning to graduate students as adjunct faculty with George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. Silberman got his start on Governor Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign where he built one of the first successful digital organising programs in American politics and mobilised over 200,000 grassroots volunteers through “meetups”.

Aprajita Pandey

Network Builder + Community Connector

Aprajita is a skilled and creative community organizer and campaigner based out of India. She has rich experience in organizational and team building, project design & ideation, strategic consulting, community building and training design. She has led various National and Regional level campaigns in India on issues of women voting rights, gender based violence, right to education, safe abortion, sanitation etc. She is the also the founder of a grassroots campaigning organization in India called Haiyya and the Co-founder of Campaign Academy India.

Ben Simon

Director of Strategic Services

Ben Simon has been leading and advising on modern campaigns for more than a decade. Prior to joining the Mobilisation Lab in 2013, Simon guided digital advocacy for the Democratic Party, Mozilla, and a range of other campaigning organisations. Simon is an experienced trainer, meeting designer, and facilitator, having led workshops and trainings all over the world.

Tracy Frauzel

Learning Designer and Lead Facilitator

Tracy is an expert in facilitation and campaigning, having spent 18 years leading campaigns for Greenpeace globally. Most recently Frauzel has been guiding Greenpeace offices and project teams through the process of designing more innovative and effective people-powered campaigns through creative facilitation, human centered design, and strategic innovation. Frauzel holds a masters degree in design thinking.

Jacqui Howard

Programme Director

Jacqui is a project leader, organiser and strategist. She has spent the last decade working with global civil society to build the capacity of organisations, networks, and social movements for social, economic and climate justice. Her approach is underpinned by a solid grounding in social movement theory and practice, and political economy. Jacqui brings a wealth of experience in facilitating organisational change, building partnerships, organising and facilitating innovative events and training, and developing campaign strategy.

Ted Fickes

Content Strategist

Ted Fickes guides organisations through complex content and digital strategy problems by focusing on creative ways to scale engagement using data alongside organising technologies and storytelling. He works with a range of progressive organisations organisations around the globe on content strategy, editing, writing and digital strategy projects.

About Us

The Mobilisation Lab is a global learning and collaboration network powering the future of social change campaigns. We equip progressive movements and leaders to adapt and thrive in the digital, people-powered era.Read More